Guillaume Laforge
Guillaume Laforge | Graeme Rocher | Andres Almiray | Hamlet D’Arcy | Alvaro Sanchez-Mariscal | Arturo Herrero | Dani Latorre | Mario García | Martín Pérez | Fatima Casaú | Marcin Gryzsko | Enrique Medina | Jorge Uriarte | Mamen González
Biografía
Guillaume is the Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241, the Java Specification Request standardizing the Groovy dynamic language. Along with Graeme Rocher, he founded G2One, Inc., the company dedicated to sustaining and leading the development of both Groovy / Grails and providing professional services (expertise, consulting, support and training) around those technologies.
In November 2008, their company was acquired by SpringSource, as Groovy and Grails bring additional weapons to the SpringSource portfolio to fight the war on Enterprise Java complexity.
You can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, Domain-Specific Languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework. Guillaume co-authored Manning’s best-seller Groovy in Actionalong with Dierk. Guillaume is the co-founder of GR8Conf.
He blogs periodically at http://glaforge.appspot.com. You can find him on twitter too as @glaforge.
Ponencia: “Groovy 1.8 and beyond!”
The recent release of Groovy 1.8 is the opportunity for us to discover and discuss the new features of the important milestone!
One of the biggest highlight of the new release is certainly the improved support for advanced and readable Domain-Specific Languages thanks to Groovy 1.8′s “command chain” expressions. The Groovy team also focused on bringing some new performance improvements, especially in the area of primitive type arithmetics. The distribution also comes with GPars bundled, for all your concurrency needs, and a built-in support for parsing and producing JSON payloads has been provided. You will also discover all the new AST Transformations that will help you further streamline your code, and make it more concise and more powerful at no cost!
After a review of the key feature of Groovy 1.8, we’ll have a look at what’s cooking, and what the Groovy development team is working on for future versions of Groovy!
